Watching the Donald cretins losing their shit is beautiful. It's always weird watching thick cunts be surprised when they're wrong about something. They've been thick cunts all their life, surely they must be used to it by now.

That Trump statement is too well written to have been written by Trump himself but the self aggrandising is pure Trump - it was probably strung together by some poor staffer with Trump yelling over their shoulder.

In other crazy news Britain's favourite racist Katie Hopkins has joined a far right Canadian website to write her tripe on. Looks like there's no confusion as to whether or not she's embodying a character, nope she's just a full on racist conspiracy theorist:

'She said in her first column: “When so many platforms are under the control of the Saudis, tied to fickle commercial advertisers or beholden to special interests and religious lobbyists, it is a real thrill to find a place for us to speak without censorship

.“If you hear yourself saying: ‘I’m not supposed to say this, but …’ then I am here to reassure you that you are. Your views matter. You matter"

It's extremely funny to see the confirmation from inside the WH that Trump (and especially Melania) did not want to win at all. They simply wanted to make as much money as possible on the back of lying to the American people.

If he never wanted to be president, then I don't understand how this was a money making scheme...

Campaigning is massively expensive. The presidential salary isn't all that high and it's difficult to put your hands in the treasury/cookie jar while in office.
Did he simply want more fame and get another season on the apprentice? Why go after the Hillary e-mails if he wanted to lose? Did he WANT to be caught?

Or is this a Brewster's Millions scenario where he needs to spend all his money (and Trump chose to spend it on the campaign) before he can get an even bigger inheritance?

The US first daughter poked fun at her father's alleged "scalp-reduction surgery", according to the book.

"She treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate - a contained island after scalp-reduction -surgery - surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray. The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men - the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump's orange-blond hair color."

reddevil93 wrote:
It's extremely funny to see the confirmation from inside the WH that Trump (and especially Melania) did not want to win at all. They simply wanted to make as much money as possible on the back of lying to the American people.

I'm a bit skeptical about this particular claim (and the Bannon stuff in general has quite a bit of axe-grinding in it - don't take everything at face value). You don't get rich running for President and losing (quite the opposite). There's no guarantee you get rich out of winning, either. You don't get paid a huge amount for the job itself. Some Presidents (e.g. Clinton) do very nicely afterwards. Others (e.g. GWB) more or less vanish into retirement.

There are quite a few books on the campaign out now and I've read most of the reputable ones. The Trump campaign is generally harder to see inside than the Clinton campaign (not unusual for winning campaigns - the losing side is usually quicker to get the story out as its team aren't as busy). There's a fairly consistent message from the published material that Trump went through a few periods where he had second thoughts about his run (one during the primaries, one just in late-Spring 2016 and one in September 2016), but most of the accounts agree he threw this off and by election day was set on winning.

The NYMag article (based on the book) pushing the line that Trump wanted to lose seems to be single-sourced and at variance with some of the other accounts. There's a general consensus in the other accounts that Trump vanished into a room with his wife for 45 minutes or so at the point on the night of 8 November where it was becoming increasingly clear that he'd won and that he did have a bit of an "oh fucking hell, this is actually happening" moment, but that's not really all that unusual under the circumstances.

There are bits of this Bannon stuff I would like, on one level, to believe to be true. But quite a bit of it smells quite fishy to me. Just because somebody doesn't like somebody you don't like doesn't mean they aren't a lying fuckwit.

@simpleexplodingmaybe Now that, I have a nasty feeling, is a genuine possibility. Part of me wouldn't be surprised to see something on those lines by the time Primary Season comes around for the 2020 elections (if Trump's still President by then, I would eat my hat if he goes through the Primaries unopposed).

Edit: Fortunately, the US is not Venezuela and, at most, he'd only get carried on C-SPAN and maybe Fox News.

Where are you getting this from? Haven't seen it mentioned in the Bannon articles

This is in the one linked above but there's some others as well floating about on twitter:

"Shortly after 8pm on Election Night, when the unexpected trend - Trump might actually win - seemed confirmed, Don Jr told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears - and not of joy. There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States."